Subject of Possible Rule Making: Rules that will be
required to be adopted as an outcome of the 2004 legislature's
changes to pension law.

Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 41.50.050(5) and statutes to be identified in
bills.

Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: Currently, the Department of
Retirement Systems (DRS) anticipates that the 2004 legislature
will pass several pension-related bills that will require DRS
to quickly amend or repeal some of its existing rules and/or
add new rules. Any rules proposed under this preproposal
(CR-101) will be directly related to these anticipated pension
bills.

Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: DRS will communicate with the Internal Revenue
Service, Office of the Attorney General, Office of the State
Actuary, and any other agencies, as necessary, in developing
any WAC.

Process for Developing New Rule:
DRS staff will work on
the project, with the assistance of the Office of the Attorney
General. The public is invited and encouraged to participate,
as described above.

Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication. DRS encourages your active participation in the
rule-making process. Anyone interested in participating
should contact the rules coordinator, below. After the
rule(s) is drafted, DRS will file a copy with the Office of
the Code Reviser with a notice of proposed rule making, and
send a copy to everyone currently on the mailing list and
anyone else who requests a copy. For more information on how
to participate, please contact Merry A. Kogut, Rules
Coordinator, Department of Retirement Systems, Mailstop 48380,
P.O. Box 48380, Olympia, WA 98504-8380, voice (360) 664-7291,
TTY (360) 586-5450, e-mail merryk@drs.wa.gov, fax (360)
753-3166.